From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 7
Summary:
Inquires about CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 237
Summary:
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[3 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 222–4
Summary:
JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".
New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 8
Summary:
Cannot get any Stellaria graminea for CD. It is rare. Some, producing different kinds of flowers, once grew in Sandgate, Kent. Variations in flowers need to be re-examined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 92
Summary:
Would like to meet CD.
He is writing a piece on the Schleswig-Holstein affair which will expose the British press.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A60–1
Summary:
Sends observations on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[7 June 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 108
Summary:
Discusses cost of trip to India and CD’s offer to advance sum. Thanks Hooker for assistance. Would prize a scientific testimonial from CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 238a–c
Summary:
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[c. 10 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044)
Summary:
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109
Summary:
Sends Passiflora paper [see 4485].
Sends seeds of peloric Antirrhinum crossed by normal form and sends results of his experiments [table of crosses].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 110
Summary:
Thanks CD for £25. Discusses preparations for trip to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
10 June 1864
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:
Letter of recommendation stating his high opinion of John Scott.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Summary:
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[12 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 109: A88–9
Summary:
Informs CD of two distinct forms of Plantago lanceolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[13–27 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239
Summary:
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
Contributor:
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